Republicans in tight races are breaking with Trump on the Iran war and immigration, USA Today reports. A Democrat's test: show the plan.

Credit where it's due: it takes some nerve to break with a president of your own party weeks before an election. USA Today reports that Republican candidates in competitive races are increasingly doing exactly that. In Florida, Trump-endorsed gubernatorial nominee Byron Donalds wiped prominent mentions of the president from his website, and Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar is criticizing the administration's aggressive deportation push. In Iowa and Michigan, Senate candidates Ashley Hinson and Mike Rogers are calling for an end to the Iran war. In Kansas, Sen. Roger Marshall said ICE "needs to coordinate with our local law enforcement." The backdrop is rough for the GOP. Trump's approval hit a historic low of 32% in a Reuters/Ipsos poll this week, and Republicans trail in all nine of the most closely contested Senate battlegrounds, according to USA Today. Republican pollster Brent Buchanan of Cygnal says his polling shows 12% of Trump voters wavering on GOP congressional candidates: "They've got to show that independent streak in order to pull as many of those 12% of voters back to them." At the party's first-ever midterm convention in Dallas, which the RNC chair dubbed "Trumpapalooza," Trump promised $5,000 dividend checks if Republicans keep Congress and told supporters to "pretend" he's on the ballot, but many seats were empty and some battleground candidates skipped it. University of Akron political scientist David Cohen doubts distance will help: "These Republican candidates and elected officials are superglued to Trump, whether they want to be or not." I'm a lifelong Democrat, and my party shouldn't mistake the other side's trouble for a plan of our own. My test is simple, and it goes for both parties: tell voters, in dollars and dates, how you'd end the war, lower gas prices and fix immigration enforcement. A website edit isn't a platform, and neither is a poll lead.